For some reason, during my first period, I thought that the bleeding would never stop; that once you "became a woman", you bled forever. I remember thinking that this wasn't a very good deal...
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I thought if 3 cards stopped at a 3-way stop sign then they had to stop forever until Christmas.Anon
- In 6th grade, I thought that once you got your period, you'd have it forever!!!! 24/7Anon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- I was horrified when my first period arrived. It wasn't blue, like in the commercials for sanitary towels.— Jane
- I used to believe that if you bled to death, you'd get flat!— Lisa G